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Why Gen Z Hates America
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I am so happy to be German and being able to choose between five to seven corrupt parties instead of your two party system.
At least you’re not being held hostage like in canada.. and have 0 say can’t even get an election cause all parties are corrupted..
Afd lässt grüßen
Bro I lived in Germany, y'all been going to shit for the last decade.
@@blackedhead tust mir leid, wenn du denkst unter der AFD würde es besser werden.
Rechten Parteien geht es immer nur darum an die Fleischtöpfe zu kommen, halt wie bei der CDU, die AFD ist halt nur etwas rechter als die CDU ;)
Based Euro.
I agree with this kid. Anyone who is ok working 90h a week just to survive has a slave mind.
The kid isn't. He said that he won't. He is making 50 dollars an hour. only rich kids would ever believe that that is not enough to live off of. Or losers that do not want to work. People working 90 hour weeks are not doing s oto survive. They are doing so t thrive. They deserve fat stacks while lil cry babies complain because they cant order grub hub 7 days a week.
Fax u wouldn’t even have the time to actually spend the money lol
And it's insane how people downplay it by saying things like "you have to factor inflation in." or "It was like this when I was young."
When my mom was born(1980) rent was 12% of most people's income, today it's 36%, a house was 2.7x your income vs 6.3x today, the cost of college annually is 8x higher, new cars were 3.8x someone's monthly income whereas their 8.1x now.
The inequality has gotten ridiculous and is only getting worse, eventually people are going to reach a breaking point.
i mean who doesnt like money? I love overtime and double time.
Noones "fine' with it, WE HAVE TO KEEP GOING... FROM THE UK
The phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” originated shortly before the turn of the 20th century. It’s attributed to a late-1800s physics schoolbook that contained the example question “Why can not a man lift himself by pulling up on his bootstraps?” So when it became a colloquial phrase referring to socioeconomic advancement shortly thereafter, it was meant to be sarcastic, or to suggest that it was an impossible accomplishment. Eventually, however, the phrase’s commonly-accepted meaning evolved, and now when we tell people to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” it’s implying that socioeconomic advancement is something that everyone should be able to do-albeit something difficult.
It was *_LITERALLY_* reversed from it's original meaning of "It's obviously, physically impossible" to "You should be able to do it, it's just hard." The fact it's such a mainstream saying is a true demonstration of the country's level of absolute brain rot.
Thank you, I wasn't aware of it's real meaning
I feel like most people still use it sarcastically except maybe the few lucky outliers that have survivorship bias.
It’s anti physics too, doesn’t matter if it’s the earth or the moon. …. Like blowing your own sail 😂
Try it if you have a big fan and sailboat….
Sayings evolve over time to suit society’s needs. I for one prefer the modern meaning
@@noodle67i disagree
It’s actually patriotic to hate what America has become.
Exactly, what happened to the pride and honor of living in America?!? Now it’s all gone.
Yuuup.
@@PredatorPicklescountry is international embarrassment, no pride in living here
Do better it’s what you make of it
that's white supremacist, actually. I love America. FBA. B1. BLM.
Corporations should not be allowed to purchase houses.
That's 3% of the market. I hate it when people say this. The problem is the pooling of money in unproductive assets. This pooling is driven by fake demand. In other words, it's banks handing out 10+ year loans like they're candy and enabling people who would otherwise not have the money to spend on assets that don't actually produce anything. All you need to ask yourself is at a time when production is the highest it's ever been, where is the fucking money? I'll tell you where it's going, real estate and entitlement programs. Both are "assets" (even though only one of them technically is I am going to call them both that and leave this note here to get semantics out of the way) that don't produce anything when money pools in them. It didn't used to be like this. It used to be that almost none of our economy was entitlement programs and we used to have restrictions on lending too before the 1970s when real estate began to balloon. Sorry for ranting, I just hate it when I see dumb comments like this. Also listening to Asmon talk about economics makes me want to puke. He actually sucks at and doesn't know anything lol
Billionaires who own those corporations shouldnt be allowed to own more than 10 homes. Nobody needs more, its just speculating with housing. Some people own 150 homes while families cant afford 1 on 2 salaries…
They are banning this. Look into the news.
@@Web3Future333 don't forget those properties are spread all over the world, and sometimes they also own the island the mansions or castles are on! Different countries.
the best part is people advertise making money by buying out foreclosures then selling the house 3x the amount the neighbors house goes for. its pathetic. "oh ivcan buy this fixer uper annnd a Corp bought it already"
"Both of them fucking us over." That sums up American politics perfectly.
Same in the UK.
Not only American, man. That shit is kinda universal. Same everywhere
We have like 5 or 6 political parties here. It's the same. The problem is that some rich guys don't know what real life is.
Germany Same thing
Not saying it's only American problem.
The problem is corruption and lobbying.
It's not people with votes that control government but corporations with money.
This is when you should stop shaming people for living with their parents.
fr fr
I think if you have cool enough parents to live with them, you’re one of the lucky ones! I wish I had that when I was younger. I left as soon as I could bc living at home was hell. If you can live with your parents, I say more power to you! Save as much money as you can.
Or even being homeless when you can't live with family
What's wrong with living with parents? In my country everyone lives with their family
@@Satya0pwhere you from ?
43 yrs old here. Went to trade school and now a union construction worker. Ive been pulling myself up by my bootstraps for over 20yrs now and somehow im still where i started. Actually worse bc i cant afford to buy the same house i bought when i was 22. The lifestyle guys i worked under had when i started out is nothing but a pipe dream anymore. I don't blame kids for not wanting to do it bc now i regret wearing myself down and wasting my youth thinking if i just pulled myself up by my bootstraps it would pay off. Ive prob cut 10 yr or more off my life working in unhealthy environments so GTFOH with that bs.
Dam bro I wanted to go to a trade school, specifically Lincoln tech shit was mad expensive. Im 18 and have no direction in life . But I want to keep convincing myself that if I work hard enough. I can provide a comfortable for the people around me. Thanks for the advice. Hope your doing well
@GREASEBALLSOh dont completely discount it though bc its still better than a lot of other jobs. Im just saying if have certain things you want in life dont bank on hard work and time always paying off. Look for other ways to invest and make money. Start a business or something. But my biggest regret is prob not doing something i really love to do that would make me look forward to going in everyday. Also if you join the union they have their own school and training program. If you dont mind devoting the time i would look at starting your own company bc you won't get rich working for someone else and that's a fact. Goodluck i wish you the best for real.
@GREASEBALLSOh The HVAC union over in Oregon pays about 57/hour and some parts of WA pays more. I would for sure look into the trades
@anthonybrown5177 that includes the benefit package which isn't all benefits you'll see. Overpriced health insurance eats up most of it. Oh and wait till you pay your union dues bc that pay drops if you factor that in. Dont get me wrong its better than some jobs but its not even close to what it was 20 yrs ago. Based on the cost of living today it barely qualifies as middle class depending on where you live. In most places it doesn't.
@PoFolks_Capital No, that's on the check. The total package is around 90-100/hr
When I was a kid our teachers said we could go into any profession we want if we had good grades. They forgot to tell us we’d starve doing so.
Same.
THIS!!!!!!
They also encouraged us to go to college/university but they never talked about debt nor the responsibilities of being an adult
Well nobody can predict the unpredictable. In the same regard nobody told our parents to stock up on property because it would be worth x15 in the future. Can we blame our parents? No, therefore we can't blame the teachers either, nor ourselves for believing them. Our gen is fucked by unpredictable forces and who knows what's gonna happen to the next gens.
The thing is we aren't supposed to buy phones or consoles or stuff like weed and drugs in order to survive and also work 7 days a week and 40 years while investing our money somehow is the only way unless someone is born with an advantage somewhere or inheritance
Glad he made the point about the uni party. To think the two party system are actual rivals and not working together to screw you is like thinking WWE is real.
Same here in Britain. The main parties are the same thing but different colours, all brought and paid for by the WEF.
If the rich do not respect those who created _"their"_ wealth, the exploited class must give them reasons to fear them.
There are many western countries with more than two parties and the same shit happens there as well. There is no institutional solution to this stuff because the institutions are interested in creating these difficulties to begin with.
It's so nice to see you guys are finally noticing it on a larger scale. For years I've been called all kind of names for trying to tell you!
If it's like the wwe it's more like a obvious yes but. Really no. Nobody wants to jump 12ft off a ladder or have someone break your neck cause a.move is botched etc
And the USA started because of a 3% tax on TEA.
Yeah we started a war for 3% taxes. Now taxes are so high but no one wants to ban together to do something about it.
@truckdrivermm not the same kinda americans so many have grown soft and complacent
@@ghost1182able Totally agree 💯 Couldn't of said it better myself.
That's the story the founding fathers tell Americans. The real story is: So slave owners at that time don't have to pay taxes to Great Britain. America was founded on the basis of freedom for the wealthy class. The peasant/farmers get nothing. They just get tagged along to whatever the rich ruling class of America wanted to do at that time. And they've kept that scam going.
@@ghost1182able
Absolutely, it will continue to get worse because people genuinely think it’s not worth it to start over, their lives are still too comfortable
"Let it rot" ~ China
"Lets buy all the homes, then let them rot"-also china😂
Yes! Also the Lying Flat movement. So these problems are not only American, but also Chinese. Maybe even global. I live in northern Europe and we work to much over here too.
@@TheKarlslok I don't condone, but I wholly understand the laying flat movement.
What I condone is not telling others how to live, we need to give each other a break, especially gen Z and younger.
@@RPcropland No homeless in Chyna
@@cygnusghedepereu6885there was video of the Chinese police during the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdowns telling a young couple who tested positive that if they resisted and didn’t come out of there apartment so they could be quarantined at the hospital, the government would inflict a social credit punishment for 3 generations. The husband said directly to their faces before slamming the door, (if the translation was correct) “So What? We aren’t having kids anyway!”
I kind of see their point.
Hating the state of America isn't hating America.
I don't hate the country, I hate the people running it. All they care about is themselves and I'm just told that I'll own nothing and should love it, while they line their own pockets and can ship THOUSANDS to everyone and everywhere else, but 0 for the people THEY SWORE to protect and defend.
@@Nightmare-wo2gdworst part is it’s more than just thousands
@@Nightmare-wo2gd That is why i'm a proud "traitor to America"! I support the country, but not either of the gangs that fight over ruling the country!
A vote for the lesser Evil is still a vote for Evil!
Sadly it’s not just an American problem. Same situation here is starting to unfold in Germany.
Supporting the enemies of America and spreading their lies about America is indistinguishable from hating America
“When the livestock stops breeding, it is not the livestock who should be concerned, but rather the farmers and the feed suppliers.” Something’s gotta give.
That's exactly how the government views its citizens, like live stock. Nice one 👍
That is why I chose my handle.
Human Capital Stock is what they call us.
always more livestock to import
@@JayGhor inmigrati4n in a nutshell, but even that pipe is gonna be dry in a couple decades
"human resources" says it all
Here is one thing that will solve housing prices and availability in the US incredibly fast: Scaling property tax.
You make it so depending on how many properties a individual or company owns, property tax percentage scales up more and more up to a massive cap, so people who own 2 or 3 homes have to pay a decent bit more to hog more resources to themselves on a yearly basis, but companies or individuals who own 10s, 100s, or even 1000s of properties will just be hemorrhaging money for hogging housing treating it as some kind of stock investment.
So many real estate firms own massive amounts of houses or apartments in highly desirable areas to live in that are VACANT for YEARS because nobody wants to buy for the price they're asking, so this would literally bleed even them dry if they refuse to sell for a price people wanna pay. It'd go back to being a competitive market again and companies that aim to make a profit off flipping houses would have like a 1 year time limit to sell or their costs starts scaling.
On top of this, they could make an initiative that all the bonus tax revenue from this goes into affordable housing subsidies for low interest loans and/or down payment assistance.
I'm 27, married to my 33yo wife, and the kid is right. And while pulling yourself by the boot straps isn't the goal, it's certainly the only way to get by now. We both work two jobs and I'm about to get a third.
Simply put, fuck that.
I’m gonna work hard for a few years, save up a bunch of money whilst living with my parents, & fuck off to another country where the cost of living is much cheaper, coz this ain’t it
@@justadummy8076 good luck, you think this is bad, there are very few places you can get away from it, and they are asking a premium to be there.
@@Armcock it's true though. In this economy until you're done with school or move up enough more than likely you need multiple sources of income.
@@BigRyse97 Luckily when you become homeless, one job is a stretch, but it's almost freeing. No longer stuck wonder when or how you'll pay for this or that, you just live. I feel bad for those they suckered into hundreds of thousands in student loans, and I feel even worse for those who feel they need three jobs to support their lifestyle, it is no way to live.
Its not that people don't want to work hard, its just that working hard and grinding should be getting extra but instead many people are still not getting the minimum.
Yep. The manosphere grifter Asmon is watching is purposefully obfuscating that point. I don’t blame Asmon for not knowing about that grifter tho. He seems ok on the surface but his other videos reveal his hand
No, it's 100% people don't want to work hard.
@@MerlinTheCommenter Did you listen to the video? He was agreeing with the first guy not advocating for bootstraps.
@@jonlocke7112 its not that simple. There ARE places where you could be working like a madman and not be able to actually live "comfortable". At the end of the day, people like that have to leave behind a place like that in order to actually have an opportunity.
Exactly
"Our ancestors were a group of people who flipped out over a 2% tax raise" how are your taxes doing now?
the complaint wasn't taxes per se the rally cry was no taxation without equal representation. same problem we have now, no one feels represented anymore
@@bradymiller9096Some people literally have no representation. We have teenagers who work jobs but aren't old enough to vote. They are still taxed on their income. Taxation without representation.
Income Tax was supposed to be temporary.
4 billion dollars a year given to Israel... I didn't vote on that.
taxes aren't the problem its every single company raising prices over inflation. Taxes would be my 3rd biggest expense. First would be housing if i paid for it, and second would be food or medical bills.
"what is your dream job?" "dream of working? are you insane... i dream of not having to work"
Republicrats and Demublicans, two sides of the same coin.
The only thing I've got from working hard is more work, responsibility and back pain.
working smarter beats working harder
Hurt my back for life working minimum wage at walmart in my college days. Not worth it long term.
@@GloomGaiGar actually now a days working smarter gets you more work as your bosses will notice this and push more work on you, while leaving the other lazy workers no responsibility. Its burns them out and they move onto the next job. Its why businesses now cant hold employees because they dont wanna pay a decent wage and keep giving them more work to penny pinch on having more staff.
Where I'm at the more you do the more they are gonna let you do
@romanticwander meh I like my job the harder the work the more you make I get paid commission per job and get stocks in the company every year I can retire off of one day as long as they don't go out of business and that's the incentive to work harder to keep customers so you get more money now and to keep the business running till you retire
“What is the purpose of this society?”
“You work yourself to death so the rich can compete to see who has the biggest number.”
News flash it's always been like that! Tiny ruling Elite and everybody else.Regardless whether its Capitalism or Marxism, power always rests in the hands of apowerful few.
*OH MY GOD*
Yep. And you can't get out of it by working smarter. You have to work "smarter" and that requires money that most people don't have! Otherwise you have to be friends or relatives with the boss.
Or Vote for the man to bring down the cost of living and inflation over time so you don’t have to kill yourself every day to make that living similar to working smarter not harder.!
The state of college is the biggest problem. Starting people 60k in the hole and then asking them to make enough to save their way out of debt sets them up for 40 years of slavery to a system to hopefully retire. Starting work life without debt makes things so much easier to make smart financial decisions.
Pretty gross.
Nobody forced you to college.
@@thestarisalieand no one forced you to be born, the mindset is tired.
@@Armcock
So youre saying going to college is like being born?
@@thestarisalie No.
NO JOKE 1 min after him saying birds are fucking stupid a bird went full bore into my window and it's completely knocked out cold on my porch
how is it still alive ?
A tiny apartment I rented for $800 twelve years ago is now $2300. It’s completely absurd. I don’t even live by any tech moves or anything. Just a college.
That’s why haha
That will never stop. Gentrification. If you live/lived somewhere desirable, people will pay more to live there. Move to Mississippi, Kansas, Alabama 😂
Wages have out paced inflation. Living next to a growing college will massively increase property value.
My place was a 475 in a college town it was a studio. Now it's 1200. It's an old building from over 100 years ago with built in radiator heating
Where does this dude live? Normally, the people i hear complain about not being able to live while making 3 times thr minimum wage are trying to live in the most expensive areas of cities.
Companies raising prices crying about costs, while meanwhile turning record profits. The system is beyond BROKEN
Also, firing people to cut extra cost because all the extra goes to the CEO
They will ALWAYS use the INFLATION excuse.... a trillion dollar company.... complaining about how them raising their wages is causing inflation and now they have to double their prices. We are being lied to, the inflation cannot be that bad, or it would not if the greedy corporations stopped lying through their teeth that they HAVE to raise their prices.
Well when u raise prices for any reason revenue increases and so do profits, its natural not broken yk sherlock. Lmfao basic math.
@@marcinm2871 do you can comprehend what you read usually?
Lol yeah coincidentally they all do it at the same time but didn't during Trump's time in office. You cry about record profits but don't consider actual profit margin.
How can I pull myself up by my boost wraps when I can’t even afford the laces for them?
What are boost wraps
@@LLCOOLJARED1 what are boots?
@@kr3ym3y91 boots are a type of shoe you wear on your feet. Glad I could help you learn something today.
Asmon is an anomaly most of his take are rage bait cause he knows he is privileged
Skill issue broke boy
its not even about the wage, it is about the taxes, we get taxed half of our pay and still expect to pay other taxes for every single payment we make
As a child, I wanted to be a mattress tester.
That's very admirable of you.
I wanted to be the guy who sits in the tower attached to the bridge and pushes the button to raise it up and lower it down when a boat comes by... so I could play pokemon on my gameboy all day.
Simpler times...
I wanted to be the wrestling referee that absolutely nobody listens to.
Skill Issue. Go make more money.
I wanted to draw chickens all day as a kid. I still do, but it's not my job.
Not only americans, happens with every Gen Z in every country. In France the majority is just like that.
This isn't a Gen Z thing, it's just Gen Z tend to make tiktok, instagram and youtube videos about it so they get more exposure about it because they're more apt to use more modern technology to voice it, every single generations complains about something, and yes, if you don't think older people complain about the issues (warranted or over-exaggerated is irrelevant) they face in their own country you're delusional. You just have to go knock on their door and ask them about it, they're not like Gen Z who will voice their opinion with mediums that reach millions of people in seconds.
We really have to stop normalizing people voicing their opinions on social media as the thing "everybody" does on the planet and thinking it's just "what is happening".
A video getting around 1-2million views with a planet of 8 billion is a below 1% minority watching it.
Even 3rd world countries as well
Here in the Netherlands as well. Back when my mom was young she bought her first house at the age of 26 with a simple cleaning job. That stuff is unheard of today.
same in norway, its almost impossible for a normal single person to get a loan for a tiny small apartment for 1 person whitout help from parents. Live in north norway, and the city i live in has almost same house price as our capital becouse rich people buyed everything and rents it out to working class. they forces the prices up, and since house price go up, rent do the same.
for example.. Here at Brazil, this sh1t agenda started later.. like 5 years ago.. like.. they are importing this gender things, free money, etc, this ideas, from USA just a few years.. and im seeing this problems on USA years ago
Occupy wallstreet got replaced by us fighting each other lol.
This first guy is spot on actually. As soon as women went to work it was ok for everyone to raise their prices for just living. My wife works too and makes a good living also. It takes both of us. I’m in my mid 40’s and work avg 6 days a week. I’m ok with it because it’s all I know, but I wouldn’t blame my kids if they don’t wanna grow up to work the same hours. They’re the ones that lived through me gone all the time.
"Working hard has a higher success rate at making money than complaining about the government," is exactly what the government wants you to think. The longer they can keep you just barely above water and willing to dish out insane work hours to make ends meet, the more value they can squeeze out of you in the short term. How is the guy demanding a higher pay for additional responsibilities ever going to get any sort of credibility if there's someone willing to take on those responsibilities for no extra pay because he's grateful to have a job in the first place? How is someone working two jobs, 7 days a week ever going to have to time to think about or push for change on a societal level when the vast majority of time is spent just surviving. It's their goal to exhaust you to make rebellion impossible. It's a form of control. And it's working, sadly. I'm glad that kid is angry. I'm glad he's sharing that anger. We need it right now.
This country was literally founded by people complaining about the government lol
@@jamestipton7872 Well, actually, now you can't do anything because we the governement didn't you know? We were allowed to rebel several centuries ago, but you can't right now because we say so, now keep figuring out your taxes even though we know perfectly what you owe us because we get paid lobby money by the tax helper companies to do so.
Care to know what the word government means? Govern - CONTROL. Ment - MIND. There ya go
This is why the working class needs to overthrough the government and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat according to the guidance of Marx.
Working smarter and harder will do infinitely more than bitching is still true
Why can't you work hard and complain? People are working hard and have the right to complain when the system is rigged against them, ignoring it isn't going anywhere either.
Exactly, the people who are working the hardest tend to be the ones who are complaining the most. He is out of touch. The main issue where facing is that we have to work extremely hard for NOT EVEN the bare minimum.
@@rubenmendez4314 Agreed. I'm an older millenial, and I remember how hard it was for me, and I can see how it's gotten harder for every generation following the boomers, but it really kicked off for the millenials. I have a 12 year old daughter that I'm concerned for, what kind of future will she have? I work, my husband works, we own and operate a small business, and we are just getting by. Everything has been a struggle. We wouldn't even have our house if my Mom didn't put it in her name for us before the interest rates shot up. Despite my excellent 800+ FICO scores, we are self employed and they make it 10× harder to buy a home. I started reading their plans regarding Agenda 21 ten years ago the first time we tried getting approved. It didn't make sense why it was so difficult, we had a down payment, good credit, provable income, so what gives? Then after some research, I realized they wanted to slowly phase out private land and home ownership. As well as cars, farms, small businesses, etc. Fast forward to now, what may have seemed questionable to some back then, is becoming obvious in every way. When the WEF said "You'll own nothing and be happy" they meant it, just minus the happy. The reason homes are so expensive now, is because they quietly started putting insane restrictions on building several years ago in compliance with Agenda 21, severely limiting supply, creating artificial scarcity. Then they allowed global, private equity firms to start buying home the remaining stock of homes at stupid high prices, jacking up the property values even more. This also raised taxes in residential neighborhoods, pricing out even more people. The high interest rates pretty much sealed the deal for most if us trying to make the American Dream ever being achievable. The icing on the cake will be the theft of inheritance. As the govt has been busy creating policies that allow the states and banks to scoop up any family properties that parents intended to pass down. Using legal loopholes like the medicaid 5 year lookback, inheritance taxes, proper titling and flaws in wills, etc. Pretty much anything that wasn't pre-drawn up by a team of lawyers going through all the laws and legal documents with a fine tooth comb, making a potential inheritance plan bullet proof, will likely be a fight for many down the road. They've weaved in so many pitfalls to lose your family home it's insane. It's just a shame what has happened in this country. Seems as if Dems are corrupt af, and beholden to the global government model, and Republicans are complacent in stopping it. Socialism and communism is NOT the answer. Those policies are what's been keeping people poor and under their control.
People who take issue with valid complaints only want a convenient excuse to ignore them and not have worry about them
the issue is they vote for the exact same group of people and then expect different results while calling the other racist bigot.
@@rubenmendez4314 well i think it's a valid complaint when you can't even afford an apartment.
Tbh even tho the older generations worked like 60-70 hours a week. They had less taxes on it, as it was easier to work for neighbour for no tax at all. There was community and you had tons of skilled craftsmen, who build cheap good houses. Today 40-70% is for rent or mortgage, depends on income and area. Back in the day it was more like 20-40%. Today a home is more expensive due to various reasons. More regulations, more expensive material, more upgrades, way more expensive labour. There is near to none, lets build this house with my family and friends. No taxes and they did it for each other so cheap but still high quality. Nowdays everything is relatively more expensive than before. You can still life quite nice, if you have: Skills to do a lot yourself, friends and family where you can trade skills, cook yourself/ have a garden with vegetables, cheap car and dont get brand new clothes and items like the media is telling you. Im literally saving 30-50% of my income due to me cutting my expenses. AND let me tell you I´ve gained freedom. If I lose my job, ok. Got 1 year to life with saved up. Wanna work less for a year, ok. Think I need something after sleeping for 2 weeks on it, ok bought. Take 2 days off somehow or like a few hours every day. Educate yourself on financing with youtube etc. Make a list of your expenses. With a cold and neutral look eliminate everything that you dont need. If its Rent, move somewhere with 30%+ less rent. Literally even If you have to change jobs etc. Its mostly worth it. Avoid expensive cars. Google for a advertised car that has good ratings on durability and low maintence cost. The freedom is priceless. No more forced labour, no second job etc. If you have a kid/partner/family, yes harder, way harder but doable.
I'm a trucker, in my early 30's now, and been trucking for 10 years. Until recently I always lived with family. (Parents, grandparents, uncles, ect..) One of my friends online was going through a rough time, limited income, veteran, partially disabled, child support, ect.. I was living on the Oregon coast with my grandma for awhile, helping her out, but she passed away March of 2023. My mom inherited the place. Just recently, in May I moved from Oregon back out to Iowa cause I wanted a place of my own for a change, and rent on the west coast is too damn expensive. My friend was living in Georgia. I secured us an appartment in a city outside of Des Moines, 2 bed 2 bath, for $1075 a month, and we split that plus utilities 50/50.
I drove my pickup and cargo trailer from Oregon to Iowa in two days, dropped the trailer off at my uncles, and continued on down to Georgia to grab my friend. Covered about 5,000 miles in 6 days. The apartment isn't to bad, certainly cheap, but its a nice area, good amenities, and the truckstop is about 5 mins away.
I started off my adult life with nothing but a bag of clothes and my old pc. Since then I've gotten myself a F250 used, now paid off, the cargo trailer brand new, paid off, a $5000 Alienware laptop, paid in cash, tools, nicer clothes, ect.. I never went to college, and I was a drop out in highschool, but I went back later and got my GED no fuss. As a trucker I work 60-70 hours a week and spend 6-9 weeks at a time on the road. I specialize in hauling glass, and now get paid a salary of $6150 a month, plus live load and tarp pay, as well as my pay is split with per diem.
On the other hand i have a younger brother, 12 years younger. Unlike me was coddled by my mom. He graduated highschool in California. (Mom was dating/engaged to my now stepdad their) After graduating he moved to Iowa near my sister. Got a job, got fired, got two more jobs, got fired from those. Used pronouns and went woke, burned his bridges with old friends, my sister, and other family. Flew back to my moms and since then, over a year now hasn't gotten a job and is mooching off my mom, whos already in poverty. My mom still hasn't done a thing to discipline him or tell him off. All he does is hide in his room, play games, and rarely if ever helps with anything unless someone gets on his ass about it.
Had my mom actually disciplined him and raised him the way I was raised, around my dad and his family, he probably would've turned out all right.
I'd say the biggest problem with our society now, since the last couple decades, is bad parents, and a shitty school system. If we hadn't shoved discipline and accountability off a cliff, I'm certain society and the economy would've been a much more pleasant place..
When my brother came crawling back home to my moms, and asked me to use his proper pronouns... >Insert< 'Johan Jameson laugh meme'
I tried helping him out, I drove him around to put out applications, I referred him to local recuiters for the Armed forces, ect.. All for nought. 🫤
(Sorry for the long story.. but it's a long story)
"just work an extra 5 jobs and you can make it" - Typical boomer who grew up when houses were 3k
This used to be for people that wanted to be mega rich, work like crazy early on, make a bunch of money, reinvest and be rich in a decade or something. Now you have to work 12735 hours a month just to have an barely average life.
FACTS no one wants to finally live life n hopefully not be stressed by 60 😭😭THAT IS NOT THE AMERICAN DREAM
I tell everyone to get a job in IT and become an expert on automating manual processes. I'm not a boomer but I'm in my 40s and having a job in IT has kept me employed with a decent salary. Granted I make 100k and can't buy a house, but I'm in cali 🤷🏼♀️
My parents house was 16,000 lol they could a paid it off in 1 year. It's worth 250k now 😂 I'm almost 40 and I saw the power of the dollar plummet the past 20 years. When I was 18, I could work 20 hours a week and rent a place get food we ed and even internet 😂
Now it takes working minimum 40 hours and your gonna be broke mostly unless you find something good.
just work an extra 5 jobs and you can make it
My parents didn't have to pull up anything. They made significantly less than I do and they didn't work overtime or 2 jobs. They had basic jobs with basically little education and they easily bought a home. Buying a home is not even a thought for me. It's literally impossible.
save up money as you can and leave america, get to a place where your purchasing power will be respsected.
Here in Australia similar scenario my grandfather who I don't like (personally reasons) was a peasant from a village in greece who barely pass elementary school yet his had a very basic job shoe repairing and basically payed his house off quick and they have the nerve to till us we have to work harder due to our worthless buying power. I'm sorry I wasn't born in the 50s and 60s oh it my fault
@@phillipjiang1593it's the balance of "should i care enough to stick my feet in?"
The dollar was worth more then and you had greater buying power. If you want to get back to those times you have to stop supporting the government getting involved in the economy.
@@av3rsi0n You say that like The majority of us think like this. Most people don't care apparently otherwise we read seem much more of a change instead of a constant decline
The "Pick up by your bootstraps" and "Working hard" sentiment is completely valid and something I do agree should be adhered by. But what many critiquing boomers don't understand is that many Gen Z'ers DO want to work hard and don't mind a 9 to 5. Just look at the "grind" and "hustle" culture, the feeling of putting effort in has never vanished.
But what's more difficult nowadays is that Gen Z'ers are not given the opportunity to work hard or, if they do, it does not give them a rewarding amount of dividends, so they have to work more hours or juggle multiple jobs and risk burning out. But when complain, the critiquing boomers say "just work harder", like working hard is like powering up in DBZ, where you just scream louder. They treat working hard or trying harder as something physical, where you just pull energy from *some*where.
"I've been sending applications to dozens of job offers and going personally to places to look for a job, but have been refused every time!" "Well, just try harder!" "Yes, I will...hand the CV...harder...and click the send button on my email...harder...". Like, do they expect us to go out into the street and go "I NEED A JOB NOOOOWWWWWW".
That’s also happening in China right now, the young are fucked, communism can’t solve that either dude
the best part of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is the original meaning of the phrase was when there was something that was literally impossible to do
People seem to forget that among many other sayings actual meaning
Anothet great shortening is "The customer is always right (in matters of taste)"
right! lol, think about the meaning, it's literally IMPOSSIBLE to pull yourself up by your bootstraps lol. What does that even mean in the context of life anyways? Most people ARE working at a job, or 2 and still cannot afford to pay RENT, not even building any wealth just giving away all their money to a corp or slum lord just so they can exist.
A similar example of an impossible task (of the same kind) from literature (late 18th century) is Baron Münchhausen successfully pulling himself (and his horse) out of a swamp by his own hair.
"these people probably don't even know how to attach a PDF file to an email" as an IT analyst who has worked for the government I can tell you they DEFINITELY don't know how to do that lmao
That's always been very painful for me...
its kind of amazing how tech illiterate young people are..
@@thothheartmaat2833 young people?
@@thothheartmaat2833 We got old folks who don't even know what a TikTok is or how to log into Facebook. And yet they can ban the app.
The Owner said he was from Singapore and these government folks are worried about China.
@@thothheartmaat2833 BOYS WE FOUND HIM! HE HAS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH GETTEM!
If you think this is bad, come to Australia. Your housing market and affordability to live is candy land by comparison to what we are going through
Let's be real, it's just a different demon, And quit pretending anything like this is even remotely a good thing for anyone.
Both. Both is bad. It being worse somewhere doesn't make it better.
95% of boomers have never ever been close to a 90 hour work week in their life. That's 13 hours a day every day. Desk job or on your feet, 13 hour work days are soul draining.
This is how world works:
"Would you eat a bag of sht or double it and give it to the next generation?"
💀💀
😂
Sounds like the later is the opposite of what it means to be a parent!
This might be the truest thing I've ever heard.
it's more like "eat a bag of shit or eat a bag of shit AND double it, give it to the next"
Dude earns 3x minimum wage. I think he has the right to complain for a bit. He has already pulled his bootstraps.
Thats only 20 bucks a hour lol he works at mcdonalds
@@tuzalolol3676 so NO ONE should work at mcdonalds or every other "simple" job, so who the fuck will make and sell you burgers?
@@tuzalolol3676 Damn i didnt know the minimum wage was around $6, you guys are fucked if 3x your minimum wage is $20
@@miles3794it's $7.25 but it's higher depending on state I think calafornia is $16.
@@tuzalolol3676who cares where you work? If you're earning 3x the federal minimum wage, you should be financially stable.
Same thing in Canada. Bought my house for $675k 10 years ago, but is now worth $1.7m. Impossible to buy now even though my wife and I earn roughly double compared to 10 years ago. Also, the higher income means higher tax bracket, so we keep a smaller % of what we make. Similarly, the higher house value means more property tax to pay.
Can't complain too much though. We have 2 kids, 3 cars and able to go on multiple vacation trips a year. Contrast that to growing up in a small village in the Philippines then moving to Canada as a teen with my parents and bro in the 90s only to live in 1 bedroom basement suite.
My current right wing conspiracy theory is that COVID was meant to keep the next generation of voters stupid, and not an actual threat to humanity as a species
*only* $450k for a working class neighborhood home? Bro, Canada's homes, which some are completely rundown, broken, old and ain't worth a shit are going for $1+ million. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous. And it's getting worse.
In israel APARTMENTS cost that much.
Canada has the same house affordability like EU. In EU everyone buys apartments because a house is just too expensive.
And also tax beyond belief cause ooo we need social program.
Tbf, usd is MUCH stronger than or chocolate coins these days.
Come to the Netherlands it's even worse
The problem with "pull yourself by bootsraps" advice is the same as "update drivers and restart" advice for computer issues. It's just a first step of solving an issue, it's already done, and the issue still persists.
It’s also survivorship bias. Not everyone can get careers that are high paying. There are low paying jobs that need to be done by someone.
The irony is that “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” began as a sarcastic phrase in a science textbook, iirc “why can a man not pull himself up by his bootstraps?”
The point is that it’s impossible to do, so whenever that phrase is thrown around I’m always like “I don’t think that means what you think it means” 😂
Fantastic cpu analogy
Running a budget helps too. But I'm soon to be in his situation.
Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is literally impossible, which I think is funny when people say that phrase in conjunction with work related shit bc you're literally telling someone to do the impossible
I agree with Asmond. I work 100+ hrs every two weeks as a kitchen sales guy. Make about 4-6k a month. 23y/o.
Don’t drive a new car, rent an old 1 bed apt. Don’t eat out as much, don’t buy crazy stuff. Just saving for a house or a rental property. Studying how the real estate work on my free time and seeing what can I do as a side hustle. I do have a double major in marketing and management that I think is sort of useless if you’re not willing to work and deal with people.
A lot of shit will not work for the people my age if they game 30+ hrs a week (because I used to game and big time waster even as a hobby), work 80hrs and expect life to be good and set their mindset on delusional shit. To be honest it’s never too good especially in our 20’s. Gotta pack with skills and a good mindset.
I hope you all make it as I’m trying too!
Hes not wrong. Shouldnt be paying 1800 too 2400 plus for 1 bedroom apartment that should only be 150 too 300 a month depending on its size. Increase minimum wage comes with increase taxes, and allowing immigrants over here illegally(refugee and non) also increases the cost of living fact the government houses them for free off of the American tax dollar.
Currently paying 1500 GBP (1900 USD) for a 2 bedroom in the UK
people make dumb choices and complain. A mortgage for a modest home is half the average rent.
@@dirtbeard108 🥴
@@dirtbeard108 And where do you find the money for a mortgage?
@@samg1879 its less than rent.
25, two degrees in electrical engineering & software development but cant be hired due to no experience. I cannot afford to move out of my parents home. Shit is fucked
Born too early to be a dystopian enjoyer.
Born too late to be a boomer and get an easy lease on life.
Born just in time to witness the moral, economic and cultural colapse of Western Civilization.
It's gonna be fun bros.
Ahh, yes, needing experience even for an entry-level job that requires you to have 20 years of experience
I mean it really just depends where you live. If you live rural its still as affordable as its been.
@@Pvt_Vick Used to be they'd fire experienced people after several years and bring in fresh recruits. This was a cost saving measure. Now, I do not know you personally and this is not a knock, I'm generalizing, but kids fresh out of school simply lack the skills to even be trained on the job. It's cultural as well as financial
Born too early to be a dystopian enjoyer.
Born too late to be a boomer and get an easy lease on life.
Born just in time to witness the moral, economic and cultural colapse of Western Civilization.
I hate when my parents said "when I was 25 yo, I already married and start a family. When I was 28 yo, I already have 2 kids." Bla bla bla bla... 🤦😑 She keep ranting with owning a house, some lands, etc. Excuse me. She got it thanks to her granma. She is not working day by day. Start from 4 am and go to fast food restaurant. She never work in warehouse and pork butcher shop where you are not allowed to take a break that long. You have to stand up for hours. You are not allowed to take a pee or relieve yourself. It is cold but you must get up early.
She complain why I am not eat healthy, clean the house all the time, buy this and that. Excuse me. I am not eating that much. I go to nearby store and buy some foods. Then go to sleep. Sleep in the bed is like luxury to me. but she dare to complain about my life and even keep bother me with question "WHEN YOU GONNA MARRIED?". 🔥👀 W T H. I am not thinking about dating. Dating who? I am working from monday to Sunday. From morning till night. When I am sick, no one care. No money. Living cost is high. I still have student loans that need to be paid. So I hate those old generations who said that young folks are not working hard enough. Just go away please. I am sooo tired. I really want to get long sleep and never wake up.
I feel you, it's hard in these times but at the end of the day, working hard is better than groveling and being miserable. Keep pushing and opportunities will arise I'm sure 🙏
Stay up family. We are all in this together and your experience is a shared one. It’s hard out there for the young working class right now but keep on pushing and speaking your mind brother. One person at a time we have to change this world
English bad as well
@gospelofsatoshi9168 Congrats for the most shallow and empty reply to such a serious subject that is effecting both the middle and poor working class people in America struggling to make ends meet. The political class outsourced many jobs overseas and focuses on issues that don't help people struggling to survive, ie. foreign wars, climate change, heavy focus on identity politics and the border. Which leaves the poor working class out of any meaningful conversation or change for the better when it comes to addressing the cost of living expenses in our own country. Some of the cheapest houses on the market and yes that includes rural neighborhoods like one I live in are around 250k - 400k plus so even owning a house is out of the question for most people. Rent for even a little studio size apartment went from 300-400 dollars a month some 8-10 years ago to 700-900 or even 1100 dollars or more a month not including some utility expenses today. The price of what was once 1 dollar for cheap Walmart brand eggs is now $3.00 for a dozen. Meat, bread, fruit and vegetables have gone up a lot as well, even a box of $0.34 ramen is now over a freaking dollar now these days. It's like our government expects us to work excessive hours, live out of an old car or tent while going to work, have no retirement and just be poor and miserable while in a job for a employer that gives two $hits less about you and will replace your @ss in a moments notice if you're sick or become unable to work for a period of time. So F - the hell off with that pull yourself up by the bootstraps bull$hit!
@@aprd Yours as well.
This is a problem with a lot of people...I'm a GEN X....I make pretty good money but we are all struggling.....I look at my father who was making at the time $7000 a year however he bought his 4 bedroom 1900 sq ft house for $19,000...yes they put money into it over the years but damn now that same house is going for $700,000 dollars...Its insane...I totally agree what this GEN Z is saying....the prices of everything is insane...How are the younger people going to afford a place to live, have families or even buy a car...they can't.....The baby boomers are taking more out of the system then they put in....When someone says they hate America, Don't hate America its the greatest country in the world however the way things are run is broken....Want to see what i feel America will look like soon if people can no longer afford to live just watch the movie Soylent Green
I am also Gen x - can you explain what this means though "The baby boomers are taking more out of the system then they put in"
dude, it's not just USA, I know you prob dont care about other places, but it's the same everywhere. Ask your friends in Australia, Canada, Europe or even Asain countries like Japan or Korea. It's fkng impossible to buy your own place without help of parents (but they could be struggling as well, so...) and rent prices are insane.
And imagine how bad thins are in "third" world countries. They didnt have purchasing power to begin with, and now things are even worse for them.
@@localhobo5362 Not necessarily...people today are simply thinking the whole "i'm gonna do it on my own" was doable a few years ago but no longer. Nah it wasn't really...not in any urban area in the US. Its been a dual income household for decades...thats the norm. Most people that were single in previous decades did not necessarily own home...depended on their career. There are many boomers that never owned a home.
Keep the ignorant masses fighting amongst themselves so they don't notice you cutting their purse strings.
The American dream is not gone and forgotten, it was murdered and buried in a shallow grave.
American dream is about Screwing other people so that they can have a better life,
and make Shareholders happy.
it's like an overgrown plant, unchecked growth leads to the destruction of other plants in the area as well,
you can only grow so much, if you kept growing at all cost past your Peak, you'll become a parasite.
Nah, not at all. Why are 1 billion people trying to come here right now.
@@fareshajjar1208 Why would any third world person want to move to a first world. Do you have to remind yourself to breathe?
The american dream worked for boeing?
@@sliime2369 Because they have upward mobility here that does not exist in their own country. My neighbor was broke immigrant 8 years ago and now he has 6 plumbers working under him. Buying a million dollar house in PSl Florida.
450k gets you a parking spot in Toronto Canada..
Actually most parking spaces are valued at around $30,000 in a downtown condo
Toronto is essentially the hub of canada so the high prices there at least make sense.
Those same prices being so high throughout the GTA is crazy however.
@@Giliver Yep all the Toronto people moved to other cities. I grew up in Hamilton and now all the houses there are 700k
Or a dog kennel in the sky (condo).
Yeah, but you're forgetting that you're talking about CANADIAN dollars. Let's be real, Canadian 450k Canadian dollars is like 5 bucks in actual proper dollars 🤣
Americans, I am from a country that he cannot show on the map (the largest EU country, and it’s a shame not to know) that will receive 60 billion in military support to protect against Russian invasion.
And so the home of the brave, I must reveal to you the bitter truth of life, get ready, nowhere in the world can one working person rent an apartment and live alone, outside the parental home.
Only couples, or 5% of white collar workers, have this opportunity. All other people live with their parents. Only in your country, thanks to World Wars 1 and 2, was it possible to achieve such prosperity. But times are changing, new countries are pulling the economic blanket over themselves.
You will no longer have this opportunity when one person's salary is enough to rent a house and lease a car.
Thank you for your support people of America.
I think some of the people complaining about how things are on social media probably at one time were trying to do the right thing-work hard. I think people are starting to break. The two groups aren’t mutually exclusive. They’re fluid.
A lot of people nowadays say: Gen z is too lazy... Well yea, why should we be motivated?!? We cant buy a house in our lifetime, a car is a luxury most of the time and buying food costs half of the paycheck..... So how should we motivate ourselves, if there is nothing we can change in order for us to have a better life? Maybe selling my organs would help with the rent.....
leave the country
@@delight7304seriously that’s your argument? You can’t change for the better so you kick people out?, ok boomer
@@crunchungus4972brother thought he cooked 💀
Can't even afford to leave. Trust me, ive already been trying. I love the USA, but I feel like I'm working for nothing here. Earn USD, and go overseas is the plan
@@delight7304if you could hypothetically afford it where would you go? Almost everywhere is the same
Uniparty is absolutely true. When an "outsider" comes in they both work together to get that third party who doesn't want to play by the "rules" kicked out.
Haha and you think the US went multiparty would make any difference. IM from the UK all it dose is fragment parties overall making it all weak. UNITED WE STAN , DEVIDED WE FALL...
This is true, I think, ironically, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are both good examples of this.
@@AwesomeIlOll3000 ho ur so far off the mark with this statement. Clear you do not know your own countries political situations nor the the geopolitics
@AnonIllumi Oh boy, here we go. I am not sure what you mean but this. I gave two examples, one from the left and one from the right, in which two presidential candidates, two "outsiders" were forced out. Not sure what you are taking issue with.
@@AwesomeIlOll3000 One is outsider other is just too much of a clown to keep at the top another go, vastly differing circumstances.
lol you were a little hard on the birds. I mean its like a mirror maze for them. Plus I imagine its difficult to stop on a dime when flying.
The bird ran into a big ahh scoreboard face first and you compared that with "landing on a dime" btw it's not like a "mirror maze" birds have excellent eyesight they can navigate almost anywhere
This is how Ron Paul supporters are born.
The house grew up in which was cheap as fuck is now worth over a million dollars.
The house I grew up was cheap as fuck too ….and it still is. 😂
We bought ours 9y ago for 39k and we put about 60k into it and now it’s worth 300k
Investment managers buying up homes
Yep. I grew up in a house that cost my parents $200k brand new. We were priced out of the area after 9 years. They sold the house for $750k, which was nice, but just to own the house cost them over $20k/year between property taxes and HOA fees that were a fraction of the price when they bought the house. That obviously doesn't include the mortgage and utilities. It's fucking disgusting how much it costs to own any piece of property.
Except that when they bought it it wasn't "cheap as fuck" and they still had to work to be able to keep the house. The fact that property appreciates in value over time doesn't somehow negate that fact.
All these wannabe Econ majors that are fighting over the fact the man shouldn’t be able to afford a house over 3x minimum wage is wild. America is cooked
My dad was a mechanic and I had a stay at home mom. We grew up (3 kids) in a 3br house. We lived cheap, but made it. That wouldn’t be possible today.
@@glowormsit's possible. the difference is kids today think non essential goods and services are essential so they keep pissing their money away without even knowing it
@@gloworms yes i agree with you
@@simunator maybe. My dad bought that house in the mid 80s for $40k. Today the Zillow estimate is $358k.
@@simunatorSuch as?
is $450,000 a lot for a house around there? the average where i live is 760,000. i saw a house for sale, 1 story cape, one bathroom, unfinished basement and attic, hasn't been renovated since 1960, 2.2 million dollars.
I'm sick of him saying that working hard has a higher chance of success than sitting around and complaining because they're not mutually exclusive. You can work hard and complain about capitalism. Working hard does in fact allow time for something like a minute long Tik Tok to be recorded. And it's very important that people can say this, and have their voices be heard since it is a serious problem. Hard work should guarantee success, but the sad part is that many people who work hard today end up homeless or in small apartments that are barely big enough just like those who don't work at all because of these issues. We don't need to pit them against each other, we need to acknowledge that they can be the same and that there's a reason people are complaining about this. Just my two cents though.
Big miss here, politicians don’t talk about the big issues impacting us not because we’re too stupid to understand, it’s because they don’t want to fix these issues. They don’t really want to fix these massive issues like corporate ownership of private housing because they get a lot of money from those corporations. Our stupidity comes into play in the fact that it’s so easy to distract us from the things that directly impact most of us with things that impact very few.
incentives, people go with the flow, and politicians are more apt than anyone to do this, but the lie that they serve the people keeps being said, when now its painfully obvious they don't, this happens every time, and every time, it ends with well, them not being around anymore.. and never does the next batch of corrupt elite learn.
C.R.E.A.M. Follow the money.
Has nothing to do with corporate ownership, it's all because of government policies not allowing for more housing to be built. Take California for example; they could just build a boatload of skyscrapers and make it affordable, but they refuse to, and now the middle class is leaving in droves. It's basically illegal to build any new houses & apartments and takes year and years of approval for anything new to be build.
It's much more profitable for them to not fix the issues and let people suffer. It's people failing people.
Facts
After occupy WallStreet they changed the plot into exclusively race bc we were on the right track to real change. It worked btw
Yep identity politics
Tea party too was a non race based protest talking about the same thing
I'm here to bring up Yuri Bezmenov once again, as people seem to keep forgetting him.
@breakupgoogle don't forget about countless people left homeless thanks to covid. Which immediately made them and their opinions invalidated to those still above water.
YUP 🙌💯
$27 for 2 chilli dogs with onions and cheese sprinkles. That’s the American dream we’ve created.
The bird thing is kinda unfair. Of course theyre stupid when it comes to navigating human structures. They come from a natural world which is being converted into an alien landscape for them. The only things they are designed to understand are plants and water. They can fly, build nests, hunt for food whereas we have all that done for us. If you were dropped in the wild with nothing at all, you'd probably not survive for long whereas a bird might.
If you suddenly found yourself in an alien environment where the aliens are a much more advanced species and their structures are incomprehensible to you because the science they understand is so far ahead, so you try to walk through what you thought was a door but turns out to be an incinerator. Or you are walking along their streets and a giant object just swings past and hits you full force because its their source of energy and you didnt understand the warnings, they would look at you like an idiot too.
Bro u sound slow none of the birds we see today were alive when there were no buildings. The birds don't just suddenly find themselves in an alien environment they've been with humans for decades birds are pretty accustomed to where they are at. And if a bird thinks an incinerator is a door then they deserve whatever is coming to them any animal in the world will feel the heat and know it's not a good place to go. Btw if anyone is unfair to them it's u for thinking they only know how to navigate food and water just not true.
@@user-nw4vf8ub1k um ok the slow thing is a bit weird, you missed my point a little. He's just saying repeatedly that birds are so stupid so I'm just saying they're not, they're wild animals and we're coming in and changing their environment. Yes birds sit on building because they're not stupid. Birds flying into windows, wind turbines etc is still a thing because they don't understand that the windows are there or that the wind turbine will swing and hit them because it's an unnatural, man-made object.
I said if you, a human, were placed in an alien environment where things like windows, doors etc were a completely different concept unfathomable to the human brain, you would also find yourself walking into something crazy like an incinerator - again this is an alien world so feeling the heat at the door is impossible in this allegory and it's only an example.
All I'm saying is birds are not dumb as he seemed to be laying into them harder than really needed. You'll find all animals will bang into things, even humans walk into stuff all the time, but there's a lot of intelligence behind birds and other animals. Magpies for instance are thought to be nearly as intelligent as humans due to their brain to body mass ratio being only outdone by humans and matches the great apes.
@@Simbabweman You said in your last comment "of course they are gonna be stupid" now your saying "there smart there wild animal" Humans aren't aliens and neither are birds unless we were on another planet that isn't our own. Birds are just stupid but smart in their own ways just like humans but we are just smarter than them making them dumber to us.Btw we in fact would do better than birds on an alien planet with breathable air because we're smarter.
It's not just the US, it's everywhere.
I'm from Lisbon, Portugal, and let me tell you how IMPOSSIBLE is to live in Lisbon even if you're working 2 JOBS! The housing system is so freaking ducked, even if you could afford rent you'll find tons of obstacles to get the place because landlords will ask 675478 months of rent in advance, your tax returns from the last 3 years, a copy of your work contract, and some BS they'll made up. Some landlords refuse to rent to nationals because it's easier to fool foreign digital nomads.
Not just that, but the Portuguese minimum monthly salary is less than 800 euro, average would be 900/1k euro! Inflation goes up, housing goes up up, but salaries?
"But there's other places other than Lisbon, right?" Yes there are, but they got really expensive as well and there aren't many jobs there.
*** I'll get back and finish this comment later, I got some urgent stuff to do and why are we talking about birds now? ***
07/05 holy duck I wasn't expecting so many replies! Sorry for only getting back, it's been a bit wild these last 2 days, but here it goes.
What really pisses me off is how people are being manipulated and alienated without even noticing, we have stuff that is written in our country's Constitution - the right to have access to affordable housing, to fair salaries - that is being completely ignored. The conservative party is trying to convince everyone that no, you are not entitled to housing because you have a sheit salary - who told you to be born poor? These people force-feed meritocracy to the people, when we all know it's BS and doesn't work.
And then they get surprised why the skilled young are leaving the country.
"But no, it's the immigrant's fault! They are taking your jobs and your houses!" Biatch, I was an immigrant before. The jobs that immigrants take are the ones nobody want because they are underpaid and mistreated, but when you come from extreme poverty looking for a better life, of course you'll take these jobs! Human trafficking is also a huge issue but I don't have enough knowledge to discuss it.
And the housing? Do you really think that the 10 migrats living in that 1-bedroom next door can afford its +1k rent? Heck no! They're there because some guy knows another guy who can rent a bed for cheap. The actual owners are probably the ones driving BMWs and Teslas, and are also involved in other kinds of illegal activities. But since the money keeps going, nothing happens to change that, and when people start asking question, they point to the poor Pakistan guy who only speaks English and probably doesn't earn more than 10/20 euros per day delivering food, as one of the main reasons why nobody can afford a house.
We should be pointing fingers to the enablers.
Portugal's work culture is incredibly outdated. Those people who don't know how to attach a PDF to an email? They are your bosses. They are the ones earning 3/4 times your salary, they are the ones gaslighting you into doing the same work everyday, and that they can't increase salaries because "we're in a recession". Bro your company has been in recession since the 90s, cut the crap. Oh and promotions? Yeah right. You're expected to work in the same position for as long as you can, unless you have some friend or cousin who can give you a little push. Or if you're willing to have some triple-X activities with some higher-up.
I hope I managed to keep consistency in my text as I had my ideas everywhere, and some don't really fit here. I'm aware of my POV's limitations.
I look forward to reading the rest of this comment 😊
Bro you live in the most expensive city in Portugal, I have a lot of brazilian friends working and living in smaller cities, and they even has their portuguese paper ready yet. But I understand that the housing market is broken in Portugal and Canada, not because the landlords but the lack of houses
Real estate costs in urban areas (where most jobs are...) are getting worse for buyers and renters everywhere, really. There's a lot that administrations can do to steer the ship in a better direction though, they just have to commit to it and put their foot down against pushback from real estate companies, lobbying etc. That's the real, actual hurdle.
Everytime I read or hear of problems with the costs of housing in cities elsewhere, I'm grateful to be living where I am. Buying real estate is a pipedream to many people here as well, but renting at least is actually affordable.
And that can be applied with how corrupted the US government are, especially with the US immigration issues which can be shown by Moist esport Australian gamers denied visas for no reason.
I just think that American dream is gone now, a lot of people just don’t want to go there anymore
@@aForkfulOfGold thing is nowadays this could be solved with:
1. reducing the taxes: in Portugal unless you are doing a renting contract you're looking at a 28-23% tax rate + 10% wqhen you register the contract
2. Fiscalize better the great cities apartments,.A lot of inflations have to do with foreigners living in really poor conditions, we are talking about 3/4 people living under the same room, yes room no roof, so some landlords are greedy make you pay about 700E per month for a room, they know they will have a group of foreigners that will be willing and this is fucked up and making the market crazy.
3. Also i think part of it it's the working culture, because a lot of people are willing to live outside the great cities, the work thy're doing is doable remote (Portugal has a lot of sotware development), it's just seem that for some reason remote work is not as common as it should be, i'm sure if remote was more commonly accepted you will see a surge in population in the more rural are, having a better distribution.
Ovewrall i think these problems are true in a lot of other countries, it's really sad, because i think the solution is not kicking out all migrants and isolate the country, is a problem about fiscalization and well, politicians being politicians...
I'm 30 and used to believe in the pull yourself up by the bootstraps mentality. I've worked my whole life away up to this point and everytime I achieved stability enough to live on my own it was all stripped from me. Almost always by a jealous manager these days work just exploits you and at my age I have no real life experience or passions. My whole life all I've known is work, eat, sleep and repeat. These kids have it even worse than when I was their age and unless you start your own business or get super lucky and land a top end job with your qualifications, you can't function without working every waking moment of your life away.
I'm 33. Similar story. I've pulled myself up, climbed the ladder.. just to get dirt thrown in my face at the top. I'm in the trades, worked my way up to foreman for a non-union company, just to find out the older guys were making double what I was and I would never be paid that much. So I went to the union and yeah I make better money, but the cost of everything damn near doubled over the last two years so I'm just as broke as I was before. I make $45/hr and I scrape by with my built in 1962 house and my 2007 rust bucket Chevy. The system is totally fucked. Everytime I think this is it, things are going to change.. they don't. They just devise new ways to take my fucking money.
I feel u heavy on this one bro. I'm 23 and also taught at a young age to go to school work hard and you'll be successful. Sure I was also taught basic skills in order for survival and literacy and numeracy skills, but they were so fixated on me going to school first, then find a job after. So I graduated college got my degree only to end up in a Warehouse job. My bro and I are the only ones working and we're trying to get ourselves out of this financial crisis we're in. Especially me all those years spent at school until college, the teachers and students; I realized how decedent and nihilistic I've become especially my parents my mom especially pushing me to strive towards "greatness". Nowadays all I do is work eat and sleep like u. This is what the people in control want. They want to slave away your whole life without the chances of u being truly successful and happy.
Trust me things aren't all sunshine and rainbows in where I'm from either.
Track&Field or Customs are like the only solutions I can get out of this mess
Same story here. Just quit a job with a kid on the way because I’m being worked into the dirt away from home… just accepting I’ll be poor forever.
@@ApocalypseYesterday they got me 3 hours from home right now. Can't find work that pays enough near home. Kids and wife at home. Shit's brutal. So anyways the met gala 😑
Yeah most companies give 2-3% raise and are happy to abuse you. Only way you'll make any actual money is through connections.
He’s gonna really hate it when he gets to the point he realizes his skin color puts him at a disadvantage
I'm in Tennessee. Just like the first guy in the clip, at 22yrs old I was making over triple minimum wage. There was a small, modest single bedroom apartment nearby my place of work, would have been perfect to live in, nothing fancy, but not a dangerous area. I kid you not, it was too expensive. That plus my car payment would have been over what I made. Triple minimum wage couldn't even support a single man renting/paying off someone else's cube. I worked 40hrs a week and was having heart palpitations from the stress and overexertion.
10 years ago one of my neighbors down the street passed away and his family was trying to sell the house. It is a small three bedroom house on 10 Acres and they originally listed it for about $80,000 and had the lower the price several times before somebody finally bought it for just under $40,000. Last year the neighbor right across the street with an almost identical house and 10 acres of land went up for sale for over a quarter million and it sold within 3 hours of listing. Things are insane.
That was still a good deal if the property was purchased by a corporate developer. They could build 10 new homes on one acre lots and generate $$$$$ if the land is in a desirable location.
Demographics of the neighborhood ten years ago versus today please?
Even 250k for 10 acres is really cheap
Companies shouldn’t be able to buy property that’s why we are in the situation we are in now
@@sunnyd4734 if it's sub dividable like that
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps anymore than you can pull yourself up by your shoe laces."
This is the actual full quote, from the 1800's. Kind of funny how we eliminated 2/3 of it and completely flipped the meaning around.
How can you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you don't have any boots?
@@level9drow856Hence the shoe laces...
I've noticed that we're currently finding out that most American sayings are just half-truths (which means it's a complete lie). Wild.
I wonder which next saying is going on the chopping board.
"The customer is always right" is another. It should end in ", in matters of taste."
It's kinda fucked up, IMO.
Or this gaslighting phrase: "You can't have your cake and eat it". Erm... cakes are for eating. I mean, what's the point in having a cake if you're not going to eat it?
Dont hate America hate the politicians and the constant over laws and over taxing. Over taxing and high gas prices is what's fukkg us
I couldn’t afford to live alone until I was 35.
Like Ricky Gervais said...Remove the safety labels for two years, THEN let the remaining population vote.
I never thought I would agree with this, but I do now. I think that's exactly what happened. There is a balance between eugenics and no child left behind. Let people reap their consequences.
This guy wouldn't make it a day without labels.
I have a Christian version of that: wait 50 years and then let people vote. People who are too stupid to have children obviously won't matter soon enough. And it won't go in a circle because this is the first time in human history that we have the ability to say no to children both socially and economically.
*chuckles* im in danger 😂. But on the other hand i already dont read warning lables.
lol … very true.
I was 18 when financial crash happened. I’m now 33. It’s worse now than 2008.
I’m 42, it’s really bad now. Sometimes I jokingly post things like accelerate when I see the 60billion for Ukraine, 30 billion for Israel bill this past month, because the only way for the things to get better is for things to continue to get much worse.
@Spitsworth 35 here also, things are not gonna get any better sadly enough!
I was in high school at the time so I didn't pay attention to much political stuff back then, but I do remember gas being $4.50ish per gallon in my area...in 2010. Now with minimum wage and average wages being what, 20-30% higher? and gas in that same area is hovering around $3.50 a gallon now? So its cheaper and wages are higher compared to 2010.
Not saying the economy isn't in the shitter, but if the cost of living is comparable to gas prices in any way shape or form, we're better off now than in 2010. I'm now curious to see how much houses, rent and food compared in the 2008 crash compared to nowadays.
@@MrPerson61 Bro, wages haven't changed where I live. And gas has rose by 40% so I got no idea what you're talking about.
Bro, my rent in of itself went from 2,100 to 2,300 and now there is mandatory costs on throwing away our trash. And I don't mean for disposal with the guys driving the trucks. I mean because apartment complexes now lock up the trash bins and they personally have to grab them from your space. Double dipping.
Not to mention houses used to cost 350k to around at most 500k.
Now it's a minimum 600k to 3 million. HOW ARE WE JUSTIFYING THIS!?
"ChAngE mInimUm wAGe..." Shit, people are getting paid more. Guess we'll just up the cost of everything to compensate. Making it so that NOTHING CHANGES. Oh, and groceries. I go buy about 250 dollars worth of groceries a week... 60 dollars for a small slice of meat and 35 dollars for beef? And maybe some bread... 12-20 dollars a loaf.
@@MrPerson61You are mistaken. No gas anywhere was $4.50 in 2010.
Landlords can charge whatever they want and nobody checks them.
the thing is people of all ages dont realize how poor many other countries are
The wage for workers to rework sheet metal parts was 25 cents a day in 1983 for the factory in India. So the SoCal plant shipped marginal parts to India from Southern California to rework them and back to SoCal to go into the products being built. All this was way lower in cost than doing it in SoCal due to labor costs; insurance costs; no workers to do simple things. All Goofy . A year later the whole production line went to India to cut costs. Had to. Your competitor goes overseas and cuts prices so impossible to build in the usa anymore
The problem isn't following through with the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality. It's that even if you HAD that same mentality and worked JUST as hard as your fathers and grandfather's did in the jobs they had. In this economy, you STILL would be hard struggling every day.
Thats not true at all. People expect to live in the middle class lifestyle they grew up in. Thats the end result, not where you start. Their grandparents didnt start at middle class. Their parents didnt start at middle class.
Young people feel entitled to live in a good area at a cheap price. That never was reality.
Your first house is not going to be middle class. Get over it just like your grandpa did.
@@thebenc1537 You missed the entire point... you could start out in the lower class, work JUST as hard in the exact same jobs as your father and grandfather, and at the end of the day, not even touch the level of financial security they did. The POSSIBILITY of elevating your status to middle class just isn't there anymore.
@@jeffreyavalos782 thats a complete lie. You buy a cheap small starter home and build equity. Everyone can do it.
@@thebenc1537 "cheap" starter home... 😂
@@jeffreyavalos782 yes a starter home is supposed to me a small cheap house. What is funny about that?
Ohh you are just ignorant of the truth. I will educate you some if you wish. For starters go to zillow. Search your state for houses under 200k. Youll find tons of them for sale in rural/semi-rural areas.
If you are too lazy to drive further to work then thats your problem.
Term limits need to be a thing. Power corrupts over time. I don't care which party it is.
Are you saying that there aren't term limits?
HUH? They are a thing.
What? 😂😂
We already have term limits. They come up every election day. The problem is with us not taking advantage of it...
@@Undefined01463the Supreme Court justices are sworn in for life they have no term limit.
Completely disagree about the term limits. There are literally people staying so long in Office, that they die holding the position.
The problem with “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” is hard work isn’t important. Knowing people is far more important, being born rich is more important than hard work. Hard work is not valued because it’s not incentivized, it’s exploited. Hard work doesn’t work, doing as little as possible to get by works better.
Exactly.
If you work hard your deemed "too valuable for the means of production" and will never be moved up.
The key is to be deemed a likable, useful idiot that can be easily manipulated by upper management but not capable/stupid enough to not be viewed as a threat.
That bootstrap nonsense is what you hear from propagandist like Jordan Peterson.
Op is right, but also Just bring down rent prices. Literally fixes everything. Boomer are renting thier kids into poverty. 1 house is enough
Rapid inflation does not negate working hard and should never be regarded as such. "Bootstraps" is a personal motto that works. But in the current economy, I can understand why people would be disillusioned.
@marcozegikniet9301 "propagandist"
Lol did you just get kicked off a campus by police?
"Just work hard" - guy who became a millionaire by sheer luck.
And? If he hasn't gotten rich he would still say to work hard. Because more often than not, that's the path to success
@chrisg4305 just working hard isn't enough. And Asmon creates a false dichotomy : you work hard or you complain. The white dude in the video does both. And the situation won't change if nobody complains.
It takes being in the right place at the right time, with the knowledge and resources needed to take advantage of the opportunity to succeed, as well as hard work, to make the opportunity happen.
It's like baking a cake. If you know how to make a cake and put in the time and energy to make the cake, but there's no sugar, you'll get a cake that'll taste awful. ALL the ingredients need to be in place to make the cake a success.
@Morbacounet work hard and do more you need to do more then what's required
@@chrisg4305 No, everyone who has ever gotten anywhere ever, worked SMART and probably very DIRTY, and NOT hard. Just about every mfracker who got rich like this says to work hard, when they NEVER did, or not even close to people who literally worked themselves to death. Tell THEM that, i am pretty sure they can no longer hear your from their overworked graves.
@20:00 The problem with this is that the people working hard are also getting screwed over so now we complain about capitalism in our off time. The "people who work hard vs. the people who complain about capitalism" are literally the same people most of the time. As someone who frequents the communist and socialist communities, most of us are employed, hard working, and trying to make the most with what we have. But we also dare to dream for something better.
The problem with capitalism is that it will always lead down this path. They create patchwork solutions to try and placate the masses, but ultimately they only do this so they can continue the course of capital and perpetuate the cycle so they can keep making money.
Modern revolutionary communism as dreamed about by many of those in the communities is not a carbon copy of previous communist attempts. It's a movement that strives to create an ideology and framework of economy that will leave the world in a better place than we found it.
It will happen. People will always rise up against tyrants; it just takes a long time.
Don't worry, in Slovenia we make apx. 1400€/month and houses are also 450.000€. So my gf and me, we work hard as nails in very respectable jobs and each make considerably more than the normal wage, and still can't even think about buying a house. Hell, even if we both wanted to take a bank loan, we can't even get close to that amount.
I’m a software engineer working out of Austin. I make 115k. I can’t afford to live in Austin. I bought a house on temple
And that's why that area is now over priced to hell.
Not your fault, do to the bullshit Austin pulled for over 2 decades
i am a software solutions architect and i bougt a 83^m house in the capital with cash in 4 years while living in a rented chicken coop size room. im 22 with no degree
Good. Why would you want to.
@TrevorMauk😂😂
Austin is now like Seattle and Portland, Democrats have ruined the cost of living.
Guy said he makes 3x the federal minimum wage, what bootstraps would he pull himself up from? That\s the problem, you work all day and make nothing.
Something has to change, and it's not our wage
12:53 The bird isn't stupid; it's evidently having performance issues. Poor bird.
I've never met a man who tried to better himself, and didn't succeed at least to some degree.
Its not just America. Entire Europe is falling off the same cliff.
It's for the same reason most likely. The way most western economies are run are very similar, so what is causes these problems in our country is causing the same problems in your countries. For example, in the US at least, housing prices are extremely over-priced because of the way our realty industry is regulated. From a practical speaking perspective though not technically legal term speaking perspective, realtors are basically insider trading through the use of contractually enforced pricing algorithms and resource aggregation. Every realtor uses these algorytms because it has been proven to boost profits if they are used and the algorithm has figured out if it overprices every single property, then people have no choice to buy one of the overpriced properties, which further raises the value and price of every other property add infinitum. There are other contributing factors, but that is the biggest one IMO, as the other factors used to exist for decades before these algorithms did but we didn't have this problem.
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMyou’re 100% wrong. Europe taxes their European out the ass. They have no where else to go… but they must go higher. You still have room. Europe will fall long before the U.S.
it s even worse here in Europe.
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMthe US has resources on par with Europe, and if you’re wildly misinformed enough to think European countries aren’t greedy would you like to open a history book and see what they do?
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMyou are so wrong. and i m from France, i know what i m talking about.
When I was 19 back in 1982, I did not feel like this at all. I moved out of the house after high school in 1981 and was able to pay for an studio apartment by myself with a part time job while going to school. The cost of housing now is complete BS. Corporate rental home ownership has to go. I totally feel this guys rant. Justified. My 19 year old son has no chance of getting his own place at this point, since you need a minimum income of $5800 per month to rent a one bedroom apartment in our area in SoCal. The current economy is totally skewed towards the rich, who, coincidentally, buy the politicians who make the rules.
Wild because you and your neighbors voted for this over the past 50 years.
@eightlights4939 how would he know this was gonna happen?
@@WokioWolfy Common sense? Researching what you are voting for? Not voting based on feelings? Shall I go on?
@@eightlights4939 makes sense.
You know what kills more birds than wall and wind turbines?
Cats
Easy solution... Move 200 miles away from any major city.
We've been screwed with no vaseline for decades, and here we are
Always use a water based lubricant!
My friends lose their shit when I have Vaseline in my glove box.
But its for the targa roof seals so they don't leak 😂😂😂